The Worst Reactions to Chelsea Clinton’s Pregnancy Announcement

Chelsea Clinton announced on Thursday that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky “have our first child arriving later this year.” News of the pregnancy spread rapidly throughout the political Twitter-verse, in part because Chelsea is indeed the daughter of a former president and a former secretary of state and likely 2016 presidential candidate.

That set of very obvious facts means that some news outlets couldn’t help but politicize the newly announced child-to-be. Here’s how U.S.A. Todayweighed in: “It’s unclear how Chelsea’s pregnancy will affect Hillary Clinton, who is considering a race for president in 2016.”

That line drew the ire of many Twitter users, including Scandal showrunner Shonda Rhimes and some journalists:

On another topic: This is incredibly stupid. No one would ever write this dumbass article about a MAN running. http://t.co/1OQsmDGIPY

Politico also jumped into the fray, running a piece that begins with the question, “What do you get for the potential presidential candidate who has everything?” The answer? “If that candidate is Hillary Clinton—and you happen to be her daughter—the answer is a grandchild.”

“Clinton will be something else entirely: the most prominent American politician ever to become a grandmother,” Alexander Burns writes for the site. “As far as sympathetic roles go, it doesn’t get much better than that.” Again, it’s hard to imagine the same line being written about Mitt Romney.

The former First Family seems to be taking it all in stride. Bill and Hillary tweeted that they were “so happy” and “thrilled” for Chelsea and Marc, respectively, and that they were both excited about their new titles as “grandfather-to-be” and “grandmother-to-be.”